Category Archives: Travel Guides
Bury Me Standing
Gypsies have always intrigued and fascinated – partly because of their mysterious origins, and partly because of the romance of nomadism. But because they resist assimilation, having survived as a distinct people for over a thousand years, they have also been the victims of other people`s nationalism and xenophobia. In this fascinating and timely study,
Hidden Agendas
In this powerful book, journalist and film maker John Pilger strips away the layers of deception, dissembling language and omission that prevent us from understanding how the world really works. From the invisible corners of Tony Blair`s Britain to Burma, Vietnam, Australia, South Africa and the illusions of the `media age`, power, he argues, has
Sudden Death
A Guardian Best Book of 2016 As Caravaggio, the libertine of Italy`s art world, and the loutish Spanish poet Quevedo aim to settle scores over the course of one brutal tennis match, the old European order edges closer to eruption. Across the ocean, in early sixteenth-century Mexico, the Aztec Empire is under the fatal grip
Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance
Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters, this modern epic became an instant bestseller upon publication in 1974, transforming a generation and continuing to inspire millions. A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, the book becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey
The Gap of Time: The Winter`s Tale Retold
“A shining delight of a novel”. (New York Times). “Clever and beautiful…it soars”. (Financial Times). A baby girl is abandoned, banished from London to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia. Her father has been driven mad by jealousy, her mother to exile by grief. Seventeen years later, Perdita doesn`t know a lot about who
Fatal Sunset
In the hills above Valencia is a notorious nightclub called Sunset. When its larger-than-life owner, Jose Luis, dies suddenly, everyone assumes it was a heart attack.Meanwhile, all is not well for Max Cรกmara at HQ. His new boss, Rita Hernรกndez, has it in for him and his idiosyncratic methods. He must abandon a complex investigation
The End of Eddy
`A brilliant novel… courageous, necessary and deeply touching` GuardianEdouard Louis grew up in a village in northern France where many live below the poverty line. His bestselling debut novel about life there, The End of Eddy, has sparked debate on social inequality, sexuality and violence.It is an extraordinary portrait of escaping from an unbearable childhood,
Schlump
This is a German Classic From A Forgotten Author. Schlump is seventeen, a romantic, a chancer and a dreamer. It`s 1915 so naturally he volunteers for war. In France he is assigned an administrative position in a small town and has a marvellous time. But when he gets to the trenches, where death and mindless
A spool of Blue Thread
The Sunday Times Bestseller Longlisted For The Man Booker Prize Shortlisted For The Baileys Women`s Fiction Prize. `It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon…` This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that summer`s day in 1959. The whole family on the porch, half-listening as
Midnight in Sicily
Peter Robb`s journey into the dark heart of Sicily uses history, painting, literature and food to shed light on southern Italy`s legacy of political corruption and violent crime. Taking the trial of seven-times Prime Minister, Giulio Andreotti, for alleged Mafia involvement as its starting point, Midnight in Sicily combines a searching investigation with an exuberant,
The Girl Next Door
The dazzling new novel from Ruth Rendell. When the bones of two severed hands are discovered in a box, an investigation into a long buried crime of passion begins. And a group of friends, who played together as children, begin to question their past. `For Woody, anger was cold. Cold and slow. But once it
Lost Horizon
Flying out of India, a light aircraft is hijacked and flown into the high Tibetan Himalayas. The few passengers on board anxiously await their fate, among them Conway, a talented British consul. But on landing they are unexpectedly conducted to a remote valley, a legendary paradise of peace and beauty, known as Shangri-La. Have they
The Low Voices
Manuel is growing up in Franco`s Spain. He adores his elder sister, Marรญa, and they are watched over by their mother, who enjoys reciting poetry, and their father, a construction worker with vertigo. Beyond the walls of the house, he encounters chatty hairdressers and priests, wolf hunters and monstrous carnival effigies.The community is still haunted
Enough Said: What`s Gone Wrong with the Language of Politics?
We’ve never had more information or more opportunity to debate the issues of the day. Yet the relationship between politicians, the media and the public is characterised by suspicion, mistrust and apathy. What has gone wrong?Enough Said reveals how political, social and technological change has transformed our political landscape ‘“ and how we talk about
A Buzz in the Meadow
This book is from the author of the Samuel Johnson Prize – shortlisted Sunday Times bestseller, A Sting in the Tale. In 2003, Dave Goulson bought a derelict farm in the heart of rural France, together with 33 acres of surrounding meadow. Over the course of a decade, he created a place for his beloved
Linescapes: Remapping and Reconnecting Britain`s Fragmented Wildlife
Glorious’ฆ Political, passionate, perceptive’ Robert MacfarlaneOur landscape has been transformed by a vast network of lines, from hedges and walls to railways and power cables. In Linescapes, Hugh Warwick unravels the far-reaching ecological consequences of these changes. As our lives and our land were fenced in and threaded together, wildlife habitats were cut into ever
The Dust That Falls from Dreams
A return to the epic romance, heroism, history and warm and eccentric cast of characters that made CAPTAIN CORELLI`S MANDOLIN such an extraordinary hit (2.5 million copies sold). In the brief golden years before the outbreak of World War I, Rosie McCosh and her three very different sisters are growing up in an eccentric household
The Illogic of Kassel
A puzzling phone call shatters a writer`s routine. An enigmatic female voice extends an invitation to take part in Documenta, the legendary contemporary art exhibition held every five years in Kassel, Germany. The writer`s mission will be to transform himself into a living art installation, by sitting down to write every morning in a Chinese
Mod: A Very British Style
Welcome to the world of the sharp-suited `faces`. The Italianistas. The scooter-riding, all-night-dancing instigators of what became, from its myriad sources, a very British phenomenon. Mod began life as the quintessential working-class movement of a newly affluent nation – a uniquely British amalgam of American music and European fashions that mixed modern jazz with modernist
Mitterrand: A Study in Ambiguity
Aesthete, sensualist, bookworm, politician of Machiavellian cunning: Francois Mitterrand was a man of exceptional gifts and exceptional flaws who, during his fourteen years as President, strove to drag his tradition-bound and change-averse country into the modern world. As a statesman and as a human being, he was the incarnation of the mercurial, contrarian France which
